H33P:
Remote Sensing Applications for Water Resources Management I

Session ID#: 4922

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  John D Bolten, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States, Forrest S Melton, NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Susan C Steele-Dunne, Technische Universiteit Delft, Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands
Primary Convener:  John D Bolten, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States
Co-Convener:  Forrest S Melton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dalia Bach Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Index Terms:

1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H33P-01
A Global Scale 30m Water Surface Detection Optimized and Validated for Landsat 8 (13506)
Jean-François Pekel1, Andrew Cottam1, Marco Clerici1, Alan Belward1, Gregoire Dubois1, Etienne Bartholome1 and Noel Gorelick2, (1)Joint Research Center Ispra, Ispra, Italy, (2)Google, Mountian View, CA, United States
H33P-02
Utilizing NASA Earth Observations to Enhance Flood Impact Products and Mitigation in the Lower Mekong Water Basin (29725)
Colin Doyle, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Michael Gao, NASA DEVELOP National Program, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joseph Spruce, Computer Sciences Corporation, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, John D Bolten, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States and Samuel Weber, University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences, Bern, Switzerland
H33P-03
Towards a South Asia Land Data Assimilation System: first results for transboundary basins (Invited) (16830)
Benjamin F Zaitchik1, Debjani Ghatak2, David L Toll3, Nancy D Searby4, Ashutosh S Limaye5, Christa D Peters-Lidard6, Birendra Bajracharya7, Basanta Raj Shrestha8, Charles Iceland9, Kapil Narula10, Sylvia Lee11, Bessma Mourad11 and Bradley Doorn12, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (7)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (8)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (9)World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, United States, (10)Confederation of Indian Industry, New Delhi, India, (11)Skoll Global Threats Fund, San Francisco, CA, United States, (12)NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources & Agriculture, Washington, United States
H33P-04
CRUCIAL: Cryosat-2 Success over Inland Water and Land: Preliminary Inland Water Heights and Validation (21697)
Philip Moore1, Philippa A M Berry2, Robert Balmbra2, Stephen Birkinshaw2, Peter Bauer-Gottwein3, Salvatore Dinardo4, Bruno Lucas5 and Jérôme Benveniste6, (1)Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, (2)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (3)Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, (4)ESA ESRIN, SERCO, Frascati, Italy, (5)ESA ESRIN, DEIMOS, Frascati, Italy, (6)COSPAR, Scientific Commission A, Paris, France
H33P-05
SWOT Data Assimilation for Operational Reservoir Management on the Upper Niger River Basin (7306)
Simon Munier, Estellus, Paris, France, Austin Polebistki, University of Wisconsin Platteville, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Platteville, WI, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States, Gilles Belaud, IRSTEA, Antony Cedex, France and Dennis P Lettenmaier, UCLA, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States
H33P-06
Can Stream Rating Curves be Modeled from Large-Scale, Low-Resolution Airborne Laser Scanning Data? (7224)
Steve W Lyon1, Marcus Nathanson2, Norris Lam2, Helen E Dahlke3, Martin Rutzinger4,5, Jason W Kean6 and Hjalmar Laudon7, (1)Stockholm University, Physical Geography & Quaternary Geology, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, (4)Austrian Academy of Sciences, 4Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Graz, Austria, (5)University of Innsbruck, Institute of Geography, Innsbruck, Austria, (6)U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States, (7)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
H33P-07
How Does Knowing Snowpack Distribution Help Model Calibration and Reservoir Management? (7888)
Chris B Graham1, Adam Mazurkiewicz1, Bruce J McGurk2 and Thomas H Painter3, (1)San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)Self Employed, McGurk Hydrologic, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
H33P-08
Use of MODIS Data in Dynamic SPARROW Analysis of Watershed Loading Reductions (24930)
Richard Smith1, Gregory E Schwarz2, John W Brakebill3, Anne Hoos4, Richard B Moore5, Anne Walden Nolin6, Jhih-Shyang Shih7, Celeste A Journey8 and Molly Macauley7, (1)United States Geological Survey (USGS), Reston, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, (3)USGS Maryland/Delaware/District of Columbia Water Science Center, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)USGS Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Nashville, TN, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Pembroke, NH, United States, (6)University of Nevada Reno, Geography, Reno, United States, (7)Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, United States, (8)USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center, Columbia, SC, United States
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